page_title: Viam
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Viam / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Selection of Gallo-Roman remains placed in a small park in Viam
context_page_description: Viam is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. The village is positioned on a lake, used for swimming, fishing, water-skiing, canoeing, kayaking, sailing and land activities such as hiking and cycling.
context_section_description: The earliest human traces go back to the Neolithic period. Two polished axes and carved flints were discovered at six locations. In the Gallo-Roman period, a route from Limoges crossed the commune. Seven sites have remains of Gallo-Roman construction, the most important occupying the Plateau du Domaine de Plazanet where a double column was uncovered. Two cremated burial sites were discovered nearby. One, dated to the 1st century A.D., rested under a 15 metre diameter mound of earth. The other, consisting of a granite burial chest, dates from the end of the 2nd century. Another special burial chest includes three receptacles.
  The parish of Viam seems to originate from the year 1000. In 1154, a bull from Pope Adrian IV, confirms the church as the property of the Abbey of Tulle. In the village of Plazanet, sixteen silos, divided into three groups, belonging to a farm of that time. Near the village of Monceaux, the remains of a castle occupy a promontory dominating the Vézère river. In 1514, a Laurent de Monceaux was a curate at Viam. In the middle of the 14th century, the Château de Monceaux, owned by the Lord Murat de Tarnac, was sold to the Comte family, a middle-class family in Treignac and elevated to the nobility thereafter. At the end of the seventeenth century, the coat of arms of Sir Pierre Comte of Monceaux de Viam was blazoned with d'argent à un arbre de sinople.
caption: Gallo-Roman remains
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